The Verdict · Atlas

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Against EratosthenesClassical · Greek

The act of casting a vote and rendering a verdict that the speaker demands from the jury.

I fancy that they are listening to us, and will know you by the vote that you give;

CritoClassical · Greek

Socrates' legal trial and condemnation, referenced as the event that produced his current sentence of death

So I am shamed both for you and for us, your friends, and I am afraid people will think that this whole affair of yours has been conducted with a sort of cowardice on our part—both the fact that the case came before the court, when it might have been avoided, and the way in which the trial itself was carried on, and finally they will think, as the crowning absurdity of the whole affair, that this …

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And moreover even at your trial you might have offered exile as your penalty, if you wished, and might have done with the state’s consent what you are now undertaking to do without it.

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